Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Harry felt that Draco had the potential to tell a bad joke.

Since Draco dared to drink it in one gulp, Harry and Hermione looked at each other, and drank it in one gulp without hesitation.

After taking the potion, they carefully searched for the Golden Snitch in Honeydukes.

What they fear most now is that something unexpected will happen. What if the two Death Eaters notice the movement on the first floor and instead of searching the second floor, go down to the first floor?
Because they were worried about being discovered, they wore invisibility cloaks throughout their search for the candy, which impaired their vision.

At first it was Harry who led them.

Everyone subconsciously thought that Harry would be able to find the Golden Snitch soon. After all, he had the most contact with the Golden Snitch, and he was also the first to discover the strange flashing firework exploding candy in Honeydukes.

But after searching for a while, Hermione realized that Harry's movements were like a headless fly and he didn't know the shop at all.

It occurred to her then that Harry didn't come to Honeydukes as often as she and Draco did.

After all, Harry could only sneak into Maud's Village, but they could come in openly.

So Hermione took over the route of action and led the two to find the Golden Snitch.

They passed one magical candy after another. All the candies sold at Christmas looked very strange and bizarre.

Some candies are so beautiful that they make people happy and want to eat them.

Some candies are mainly for fun, and are even made into the shape of eyeballs, looking more like candies used for Halloween.

Honeydukes had bought so much Christmas candy that the normal candy that was always hot-selling was piled up in a small corner.

It took them a while to find a normal batch of candies.

If Draco hadn't had good eyesight and hadn't been able to identify the gray stuff as normal candy sold in the shop, even Hermione would have missed it.

They began to turn over slowly.

"That's not it!"

"That's not it. Where is the Golden Snitch?"

As Hermione was searching, she suddenly said, "I think we may be looking in the wrong direction. The price of the Golden Snitch candy is not cheap. Even if it is not the main product now, it should not be placed in a small corner."

Draco agreed, "After all, it costs several gold Galleons. Even if they are not valued, they should be stored separately. Will they be put into the warehouse by the clerk in advance?"

Harry frowned. "But the warehouse should be full of clerks hiding now. If we go to the warehouse, we will run into those clerks and we will most likely be discovered."

Hermione made a quick decision. "We have an invisibility cloak. As long as we are careful, ordinary wizards will never be able to find us. Let's go to the warehouse now!"

The three of them have strong execution capabilities.

As soon as Hermione made her decision, she headed for the warehouse, followed by Draco and Harry.

The warehouse was the basement of the Honeydukes store. They had been to the warehouse before and remembered the route.

They opened the door and Harry immediately heard several rapid breaths from inside.

Even though he tried very hard to suppress the breathing sound, Harry could still feel the panic of those people.

"Merlin bless you, it's definitely not a Death Eater, it's definitely not a Death Eater!"

Some shop assistants couldn't stand the silence and couldn't bear it anymore, so they started muttering to themselves.

This angered another clerk, who lowered his voice angrily and yelled at her to shut up.

The sound of wind coming from the door was very loud, making a whistling sound, which made people feel the weather outside the store, like a prelude to a heavy rain.

A clerk suddenly said, "Maybe we didn't close the door tightly enough, so the wind blew it open. We just need to close it again."

"Who's going to turn it off?" another clerk asked.

Ever since the door opened, the clerk's heart has been pounding wildly and he feels like he has given up on himself.

If the Death Eaters really came in, none of them present would be able to escape.

The clerk sneered and said, "You said that the sound of the wind outside opened the door, so it's up to you to close it. If you can close it, then I will believe what you say!"

While the clerks were discussing, Harry and the others had already carefully come down from the door and arrived at the center of the warehouse, only several steps away from the clerks.

They heard what the clerk said and hurried back to look for the Golden Snitch candy.

Harry looked around and suddenly saw a ray of golden light behind a clerk.

He looked carefully and found that the Golden Snitch was behind a store clerk!

Harry immediately pulled Draco and Hermione and pointed behind the clerk.

Draco and Hermione also saw it, and they quickly thought of a solution. Suddenly, Hermione took out a small stone from the ring and threw it hard in the opposite direction.

With a "bang", the stone smashed a glass window, attracting the attention of all the shop assistants.

"Ah! They are coming, they must be coming, we will all die, no one can escape!"

Some of the shop assistants screamed in fear, thinking that the Death Eaters had arrived.

Some shop assistants stared at the broken window for a while, suppressing their fear, before saying, "Shut up! Stop crying and don't make too much noise. It's just a stone!"
You are right, the door must have been blown open by the wind. There was such a strong wind outside that even the stones were blown in!"

Appropriately, the door also flapped at this moment, as if it was swaying left and right due to the wind outside.

The shop assistants all stood up and moved together, trying to close the door again.

Hermione took advantage of this opportunity to grab the Golden Snitch candy.

They are much faster than the store clerks.

These shop assistants walked slowly and tested each other. Any slight movement would scare them so much that they squatted in place and dared not move.

As a result, Hermione and others got the Golden Snitch candy and reached the stairs faster than the clerk.

Without further hesitation, they left the door via the stairs.

Because the noise was quite loud, some of the shop assistants even heard their slightly hurried footsteps, which frightened those shop assistants who had finally mustered up the courage.

After successfully getting the Golden Snitch, they arrived outside Honeydukes' shop.

I just happened to run into my past self on the second floor, fighting fiercely with the Death Eaters.

Because of the huge noise from the second floor, the whole building made a loud noise.

Harry couldn't help but think that given how timid the shop assistants were, if they heard the same noise again when closing the door, they would probably shrink back in fear again.

Hermione urged, "We have to hurry to the Shrieking Shack. We can't just walk there slowly. We can use the Patronus Charm to deal with the Death Eaters very quickly. The battle on the second floor won't give us enough time. We have to use Apparition to get to the Shrieking Shack!" They found an empty and deserted place, took off their invisibility cloaks, took a deep breath, and pointed their wands at themselves.

The situation was critical at the moment, and even though Harry felt he was not very competent, he had to go ahead.

What he was afraid of was not that he could not use Apparition, but that he would have to use Apparition to go to a strange place.

He had just learned that even Hermione had Apparated to the wrong direction in this situation. Harry felt that he would be in the same situation as well, and perhaps his situation after moving would be even worse than Hermione's.

As his companions left one by one, Harry was the only one left.

Harry knew he couldn't delay any longer, so he mustered up the courage to say to himself, "I can do it! I've even learned the Patronus Charm, so Apparition will be no problem for me!"

His eyes grew firm as he kept recalling the secret of using Apparition in his mind, and the location of the Shrieking Shack kept coming to his mind.

"Apparate!"

Harry felt as if his body was stuffed into a narrow rubber tube, and his internal organs were being squeezed, as if someone was pressing his head to shrink back into a certain place.

When he was about to be unable to bear it anymore, the rubber tube suddenly opened, and he broke through the obstacle and freed himself from the narrow space.

Harry stood unsteadily in place, his face pale. He raised his head and looked around, a look of confusion flashed across his eyes.

"This isn't the Shrieking Shack, where am I?" he muttered to himself. "Is there such a place in Hogsmeade?"

What I saw was a study room with many books placed in it. After observing it for a long time, I felt a sense of oppression as if I was squeezed by the books.

Harry was there for only a few moments before he felt that the books seemed to be moving.

Without his noticing, the books seemed to be moving forward quietly!

But when he looked over, the books were no longer moving!
Harry was nervous and helpless. Where on earth had he come to? How could he get out?
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"Harry? Harry!"

Hermione and Draco arrived at the Shrieking Shack smoothly. They waited for a while, but didn't see Harry, so they called out to him from nearby.

At this time, they still thought that Harry had successfully used Apparition, but had chosen the wrong location and arrived near the Shrieking Shack.

After searching for a while without any results, Hermione suddenly said with a pale face, "Could it be that Harry failed in casting a spell and broke his arms and legs?"

Draco had practiced magic and his magic power was much stronger than Hermione's. He immediately said, "I'll go back and see if Harry is here."

He raised his wand and pointed it at himself, quickly using Apparition.

Hermione stood there waiting for a while, and saw Draco appear again.

Draco shook his head at Hermione solemnly. "Harry is not where we were before. Not only that, I went to the high places around to look around, and Harry was not near the Shrieking Shack. I don't know where he was moved to."

"The only good news is that I didn't see any blood at the scene. His use of Apparition should have been successful, but he was just transferred to the wrong place."

Hermione was very anxious, but she had to suppress this emotion in her heart, trying to make her expression cold and hard, and think calmly about what to do next.

She can't panic!

Once they lost their minds, neither Ron nor Harry could get them back.

"Let's go set up the Golden Snitch first and proceed according to the original plan."

Now they didn't have the extra energy to look for Harry, so they could only choose to stabilize Ron's condition first.
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At the same time, Lin Xia made a new discovery underground.

She had explored the road in this direction once before, but after digging for a long time, she didn't find anything. It must be that she was searching in the wrong direction.

So she changed direction and continued digging.

This time, she quickly dug up something special.

The soil was the same as the road that had been dug before, without any changes, but when she observed the magical properties of the soil, she immediately felt something was wrong.

The dark magic properties carried by these soils are too strong!
You must know that when the power of the evil god tentatively invaded the wizarding world, the evil god world used dark magic to package itself and attracted a large number of wizards to become dark wizards.

The emotions of dark wizards are not as stable as those of white wizards, which leads many dark wizards to be infected and led to the world of evil gods.

Now she could vaguely sense a hint of the power of the evil god's world from the soil.

She has been observing black bugs for quite a long time, and can immediately find them if there are black bugs mixed in the soil.

But because there were no black bugs in the soil, but the magical properties were somewhat special, Lin Xia could only continue digging.

She changed the digging direction several times along the way, specifically digging towards places with strong dark magic attributes.

After a while, she paused. This time, the new soil she brought out was already filled with black bugs!

Her instincts were correct.

There really was something under the station that the Death Eaters wanted to find.

And this thing is definitely very powerful. It can pollute the surrounding environment and even the soil can be infected.

The moment Lin Xia discovered the black bug, the scale of fate that had been hidden in her body slowly began to heat up.

The Scales of Fate could not hold back and reminded Lin Xia in this way to quickly find the thing hidden underground and then make a sacrifice.

This time, Lin Xia can use the power of the scales of fate to find out the specific direction of that thing.

When she digs in the wrong direction, the scales of fate won't be so hot.

And when she found the right direction, the heat from the back of her hand was so strong that it seemed to burn her skin!

Lin Xia's body has undergone several changes and is now able to live freely in many extreme environments.

The heat that could make her feel painful was something that ordinary heat could not achieve.

Lin Xia glanced at the Scales of Fate tattoo on the back of her hand with a warning look in her eyes.

The heat on the scales of fate finally died down a little.

"Bang!" Suddenly, Lin Xia's shovel hit something hard.

A hint of interest flashed across her eyes, and she dug more carefully, gently brushing away the surrounding soil.

Gradually, a palm-sized iron box appeared in front of her.

Lin Xia just used the magic shovel to pry the iron box gently to her side.

After careful observation, she could see that there were many black bugs surrounding the surface of the iron box, very densely, just like ants building a nest on the surface of the iron box. (End of this chapter)